The Write Attention Podcast

Show, Tell, and Practice

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Description

 In this debut episode of The Write Attention podcast, Brittany Felder and Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham talk about where they are on their writing journeys and answer questions about discipline and discernment.

 

Questions

  1.  How do you discern what to keep or remove from your writing?
  2.  What does discipline in writing mean to you?

 

Show Notes

Writers, books, articles, ideas and questions mentioned in this episode

  1. Sonya Huber article, “The Three Words that Almost Ruined Me as a Writer: Show Don’t Tell
  2. Sign up for the Sitting in Silence newsletter here: https://mauricecarlosruffin.substack.com/
  3. Lauren Samblanet's website: https://www.laurensamblanet.com/ 
    1. Finding & Nourishing Pleasure in Your Creative Practices; workshop taken through Reinventing Creative Process: https://www.reinventingcreativeprocess.com/ 
    2.  Building Discernment and Trust in Our Editing Practices; workshop taken through Alchemy Writing Workshop & Community Coven created by Hillary Leftwich: https://alchemyauthorservices.com/home/alchemy-writing-workshop-3/
  4. Writing Tools 55 Essential Strategies for Every Writer by Roy Peter Clark
  5. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  6. On Writing  by Stephen King
  7. Black Writer’s Program Speculative Workshop led by Aaron Talley
    1. The “heat map”
  8. “Sunbathing is Forbidden in the Graveyard” by Jeannetta Craigwell-Graham forthcoming in January 2023 in the Indiana Review
  9. “Move fast and break things”, sadly apparently a Mark Zuckerberg quote, or at least a Silicon Valley mantra, read this book on why this is may not be working out for them.
  10. Everything Everywhere All at Once film
  11. Lauren Groff  website: https://laurengroff.com/ ; not the article Jeannetta read but here is an article where Groff references her writing routine: https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2021/09/lauren-groff-matrix/619998/
  12. Ben Ferguson’s website here: http://www.benfergusson.com/ . Class was taken through The Reader Berlin: https://www.thereaderberlin.com/
  13. Crystal Wilkinson website here: https://www.crystalewilkinson.net/;  Hurston Wright Foundation: https://www.hurstonwright.org/
  1. Ben Ferguson’s website here: http://www.benfergusson.com/ . Class was taken through The Reader Berlin: https://www.thereaderberlin.com/
  2. Crystal Wilkinson website here: https://www.crystalewilkinson.net/;  Hurston Wright Foundation: https://www.hurstonwright.org/

This episode was recorded in the late summer of 2022.